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14-letter words containing m, o, k

  • go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
  • gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • hangman's knot — a slip noose for hanging a person, usually having eight or nine turns around the rope.
  • have a stomack — to be pregnant
  • hemlock looper — the larva of a geometrid moth, Lambdina fiscellaria, common in some areas of North America and a serious pest of various trees, as hemlock, Douglas fir, balsam spruce, and oak.
  • hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
  • homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
  • honeycomb work — stalactite work.
  • horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
  • housing market — property trade
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • insertion mark — a symbol used to show that a missing letter or symbol should be inserted
  • isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
  • jackson method — (programming)   A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
  • johnny smokers — a plant Geum triflorum, of the rose family, native to North America, having purplish flowers and silky-plumed fruit.
  • jonker diamond — a noted diamond weighing 726 carats, discovered in the Transvaal in 1934 and cut into 12 pieces.
  • kalamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
  • kamloops trout — a variety of rainbow trout found in Canadian lakes
  • karakoram pass — a high pass (5575 m (18 290 ft)) that crosses the Karakoram mountains in N Kashmir
  • kekulé formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
  • khartoum north — a city in E central Sudan, on the Blue Nile River, opposite Khartoum.
  • kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
  • kilogram-meter — a meter-kilogram-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one kilogram when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force; approximately 7.2 foot-pounds. Abbreviation: kg-m.
  • kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
  • kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
  • lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
  • linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
  • load-line mark — any of various marks by which the allowable loading and the load line at load displacement are established for a merchant vessel; a load line.
  • locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
  • long-neck clam — soft-shell clam.
  • low-water mark — the lowest point reached by a low tide.
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
  • make a fortune — win, earn a vast amount of money
  • make a fuss of — If you make a fuss of someone, you pay them a lot of attention and do things to make them happy or comfortable.
  • make a hash of — a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.
  • make a hole in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • make a joke of — If you make a joke of something, you laugh at it even though it is in fact rather serious or sad.
  • make a meal of — to perform (a task) with unnecessarily great effort
  • make a meal on — to eat as a meal
  • make a muck of — to ruin or spoil
  • make allowance — to take circumstances, limitations, etc. into consideration
  • make an end of — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
  • make little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
  • make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
  • make one's bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • make one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • mark-to-market — denoting a system that values assets according to their current market price
  • market economy — a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
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